Post-Traumatic Feelings of Vulnerability, Psychological Disability, And Connection to Others in Victims of the 2016 Seka Train Derailment in Cameroon

Abstract

The problem here is that of the restructuring of the link to the other of the psych traumatized person. The objective here is to apprehend the mechanism by which the feeling of vulnerability in the victim of a serious traffic accident, entered in a situation of disability, affects his or her link to the other. Following a qualitative approach, focused on the case study, the data were collected through semi-directive interviews with three victims of the 2016 Seka train accident. For this purpose, thematic content analysis was favoured. According to the results, the link to the other of the psych traumatized person (PP) is declined according to the instinctual unbinding, the attempt of the ego to restore the balance within the psychic spaces in humans. Also, they show that after a serious traffic accident, the organizers of the link are re-focused and can preserve their initial character just as they can be tainted by a feeling of pity. In this case, they plunge the victim into a fusional and/or conflictual relationship, generating a feeling of uselessness, a functional discomfort and a decrease or even a loss of self-esteem.